Mapping Georgia: Experts create first digital topographical map since 1991
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Georgia is teaming up with Norway to create the country’s first digital topographical map since 1991, showing detailed natural and man-made features that will be extremely helpful for locals and foreigners exploring the country.
Topographical maps are detailed, accurate graphic representations of features that appear on the country’s surface. These features include:
- Cultural: roads, buildings, urban development, railways, airports, names of places and geographic features, administrative boundaries, state and international borders, reserves.
- Hydrography: lakes, rivers, streams, swamps, coastal flats.
- Relief: mountains, valleys, slopes, depressions.
- Vegetation: wooded and cleared areas, vineyards and orchards.
These maps are generally used for recreational purposes, such as travelling, hiking and orienteering, but they are also used by the government and industry to assist with urban planning, mining, emergency management and the establishment of legal boundaries and land ownership.
With support from the Norwegian government, Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry under the Ministry of Justice was actively working to create the map that when complete will be the country’s first 1:10,000 scaled topographical map since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
The Agency has already selected 600 keys with their own unique codes to represent special features, places or interesting aspects of Georgia.
The complete version of the map will be unveiled in 2022.
However before then the developing map will be uploaded to the Agency’s webpage www.napr.gov.ge and visitors will be able to observe the map as it is updated and finalised.
Foreigners interested in Georgian land services can now get direct access to the country’s official land register thanks to the relevant Georgian agency joining the European network.
Complete information detailing five of Georgia’s main cities will soon be published on Google Maps.
One of the world’s most widely-used online mapping services has added Tbilisi to its worldwide service. Every street and any building in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi is now in focus on Google Maps – an online mapping service that offers satellite imagery, street maps and street view perspectives of the city.
Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry has launched a project to digitalise and create an online archive of unique historical maps of Georgia that are accessible to citizens all over the country.
The location and operation details of 70 recently new agricultural cooperatives in Georgia’s Adjara region are now available on Google maps.
Georgia and other eastern partner countries of the European Union (EU) are discussing ways to collaborate on digital issues to bring economic growth, generate jobs, improve people’s lives and help businesses.
Georgia has started creating cadastral maps of its vineyards, preparing alphanumeric information about viticulture and vineyards, including varieties and other characteristics.
Navigating Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi will soon become easier for locals as well as guests of the city as the National Navigation System Project is coming to an end.
The distribution or publication of a map of Georgia in which the occupied territories of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) are not presented as a part of the Georgian state will become punishable under the criminal code of Georgia.